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Humans Treat Animals As Things That Exist As Means To Human Ends. That's Morally Wrong. Sexism Promotes The Idea That Women Are Things That Exist As Means To The Ends Of Men. That's Morally Wrong. We Need To Stop Treating All Persons - Whether Human Or Nonhuman - As Things.

So It Is Always Preferable To Discuss The Matter Of Veganism In A Non-judgemental Way. Remember That To Most People, Eating Flesh Or Dairy And Using Animal Products Such As Leather, Wool, And Silk, Is As Normal As Breathing Air Or Drinking Water. A Person Who Consumes Dairy Or Uses Animal Products Is Not Necessarily Or Usually What A Recent And Unpopular American President Labelled An "evil Doer.

The Theory Of Animal Rights Simply Is Not Consistent With The Theory Of Animal Welfare... Animal Rights Means Dramatic Social Changes For Humans And Non-humans Alike; If Our Bourgeois Values Prevent Us From Accepting Those Changes, Then We Have No Right To Call Ourselves Advocates Of Animal Rights.

We Cannot Justify Treating Any Sentient Nonhuman As Our Property, As A Resource, As A Thing That We An Use And Kill For Our Purposes.

We Can No More Justify Using Nonhumans As Human Resources Than We Can Justify Human Slavery. Animal Use And Slavery Have At Least One Important Point In Common: Both Institutions Treat Sentient Beings Exclusively As Resources Of Others. That Cannot Be Justified With Respect To Humans; It Cannot Be Justified With Respect To Nonhumans—however “humanely” We Treat Them.